All Films

The Night Before the Escape

1982 • 8 min • Japan

Whose Are You, Old People?

1982 • 35 min • Soviet Union

Kasian Nefedovich decides to convey his last wish, of burying him beside his wife's grave, to his daughter Zinke and spend some time with her. But she doesn't allow him to stay with her family.

Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms

1982 • 34 min • Canada

The further adventure of Nick, Paizs' silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka Rocky Roletti). Unwittingly, Nick becomes involved in attempts to restore old campus hangout and the dirty political tricks swirling a hard fought student election. The film successfully weaves the tone of 40s college hijinx movies through the clever spoof of current electoral trends, suggesting how easily old fashioned ethics can turn into fashion.

The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine

1982 • 30 min

The Berenstain Bears Comic Valentine is an animated television special based on the Berenstain Bears children's book series by Stan and Jan Berenstain. Produced by Buzz Potamkin and directed by Mordicai Gerstein and Al Kouzel, the program made its debut on NBC on February 13, 1982.

Johan är död

1982 • 56 min • Sweden

Johan runs across a road to get his ball when a car appears out of nowhere and strikes him dead.

Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon

1982 • 14 min • Japan

Aikoku Sentai Dai-Nippon fight the evil plan of the Red Bear Empire, led by Death Kremlin, to brainwash the children of Japan by replacing the pages of their textbooks with red paper.

Hollywood’s Children

1982 • 55 min • United States of America

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).

Puff the Magic Dragon: The Incredible Mr. Nobody

1982 • 23 min • United States of America

The magic dragon teaches a boy to believe in his own creative abilities.

Oi for England

1982 • 54 min • United Kingdom

In the Moss Side, Manchester "race riots" of 1981 a struggling punk band are tempted by a sinister entrepreneur to perform at a major gig in support of British extreme Right political organizations.

Bunnicula, the Vampire Rabbit

1982 • 23 min • United States of America

When strange accidents happen at the factory where Mr. Monroe works, and vegetables are drained of their juices, the neighbors as well as Harold the dog and Chester the cat suspect that the new-found family bunny is really a vampire.

Asami Ogawa's Binding: Jin Ping Mei

1982 • 30 min • Japan

BDSM erotica-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Traveling Hopefully

1982 • 28 min

A documentary about Roger Baldwin, the founder of the ACLU.

The Rank Charm School

1982 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Documentary about The Company of Youth, The Rank Organisation’s training school for aspirant film actors, nicknamed The Rank Charm School.

Trial by Jury

1982 • 50 min

Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the altar – the trial bubbles over with emotion, humour, and downright chaos, leaving the jury divided.

The Slog Movie

1982 • 59 min • United States of America

A raw and unparalleled DIY documentary about the West Coast Punk scene made by a group of young fans/filmmakers about the bands they loved.

Laissé inachevé à Tokyo

1982 • 21 min • France

A young woman travels to Japan to write a novel.

Sesselja

1982 • 59 min

A film about a woman named Sesselja

A Mother Like Him

1982 • 55 min

A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?

Rumpelstiltskin

1982 • 41 min • United States of America

Desperate to save her own life, a miller's daughter makes a bargain with a strange elf-like character. When she cannot cover her debt she is faced with a challenge.

Jake's End

1982 • 60 min

'Motors can stall, shooters can jam. But Jake's end of it'll be all right.' Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain-and a bank to rob.

Return of the Ewok

1982 • 24 min • United States of America

A mockumentary starring Warwick Davis, the actor who played the Ewok, Wicket W. Warrick in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and the Ewok spin-off films. Davis and David Tomblin, Return of the Jedi's first assistant director, created it, with Tomblin directing. Lucasfilm planned to use the movie as a promotional film for Return of the Jedi, but post-production on the film was never completed.

To Live or Let Die

1982 • 30 min • United States of America

To Live or Let Die is a 1982 American short documentary film directed by Terry Sanders, about the neonatal I.C.U. of the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, where life and death decisions must be made while ethical dilemmas are also posed by new technologies.. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Race to Oblivion

1982 • 27 min • United States of America

Documentary about the dangers of the nuclear arms race, including an interview with an eyewitness of the bomb drop on Hiroshima and scientific statements describing the devastating consequences of a nuclear war.

Homeground

1982 • 52 min

Sunderland, against all of the odds, beat Leeds United in the 1973 FA Cup final, and memories of that triumphant city are revived when a photographer revisits his home town. But any ideas about moving back are sorely tested when his rose-tinted recollections clash with the realities of life in Sunderland. An engaging comedy-drama that explores our need to belong.